Mary-Louise Parker Revisits the Stage

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Published: September 14, 2007

Mary-Louise Parker, who won a Tony Award in 2001 for ''Proof,'' was nominated for a Tony in 2005 for ''Reckless'' and won a Golden Globe for playing a suburban drug dealer in the television show ''Weeds,'' is returning to the New York stage. She will star alongside Kathleen Chalfant in the Playwrights Horizons production of Sarah Ruhl's new play, ''Dead Man's Cell Phone,'' about a woman, played by Ms. Parker, who is sitting at a cafe and picks up a ringing cellphone that belonged to, well, a dead man. Previews are to begin on Feb. 8 with an opening night set for March 4.